Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
About the Role
Join the Assembly, Integration & Testing (AIT) team and play a key role in the development, integration, verification, and testing of spacecraft systems. Collaborate with design, systems, and manufacturing teams to ensure hardware meets high-quality standards. Support assembly and test operations, manage verification, drive continuous improvement, and lead non-conformance resolution. This role requires a hands-on engineer with strong technical judgment and a passion for aerospace hardware development, contributing across the full spacecraft lifecycle. You will help establish and maintain best practices, processes, and standards for complex space systems.
Responsibilities
- Execute procedures, supervise technicians, and interface with the QA department.
- Support the definition of quality metrics and acceptance procedures and criteria.
- Collaborate with design engineering teams to simplify processes and improve quality.
- Provide guidance on best practices, standards, manufacturing, and assembly techniques.
- Advise on detailed design standards and potential re-design requirements.
- Review specifications and designs, providing judgment on quality and manufacturability.
- Track spacecraft configuration during build and testing.
- Assist in maintaining logbooks and logs of procedure execution.
- Support continuous improvement efforts for operations.
- Take responsibility for non-conformance resolution process execution and completion of cause & corrective action efforts.
- Maintain a log of lessons learned.
- Support Systems Engineering by contributing to requirements management.
- Provide advice on the selection, integration, and calibration of spacecraft instrumentation.
- Support data acquisition system integration and set-up.
- Support formulation of spacecraft test requirements.
- Prepare testing documents (plans, specifications, procedures, reports).
- Review supplier test and verification activities.
- Manage ispace verification testing activities.
- Apply engineering principles to develop mechanical, electronic, or chemical products.
- Conduct 3D design studies and mathematical modeling.
- Support and participate in the design, test, modification, fabrication, and assembly of prototypes.
- Design product-specific manufacturing production processes and equipment.
- Review, critique, and correct Mechanical AIT team internal products.
- Contribute to the development of MAIT processes, sequences, and techniques.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience with spacecraft integration and verification campaigns, including environmental testing.
- Knowledge of DFMA concepts and proven experience applying them.
- Previous experience working in a focused team of 3-7 people.
- Knowledge of ERP software and database management.
Skills
- Mechanical AIT
- Spacecraft Systems
- Assembly
- Integration
- Verification
- Testing
- Quality Standards
- Technical Judgment
- Aerospace Hardware Development
- Design Reviews
- Prototyping
- Manufacturing
- Spacecraft Lifecycle
- Process Improvement
- Japanese language (working level)
- Lean Six Sigma
- Microsoft Office
- Atlassian Productivity Suite
- Forklift operation
- Overhead Crane Operation
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Salary/Compensations
- Compensation aligned with local market benchmarks in Japan
About the Company
- ispace, inc. is looking for a Mechanical AIT Engineer to join our growing production team.